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LuxRender Material Database

LuxRender has started a Materials Database from which you can download materials as well as upload you own content to it.Â It looks pretty impressive so far. While you are at the LuxRender site check out the gallery too. There are some wonderful Blender LuxRendersÂ in the exhibit.

I hate it when people talk about how they hope gpl apps won't go commercial...

They are GPL, they can charge money only for distribution and support, and can't restrict how you redistribute it with or without changes.
Honestly people, read the thing http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

And let's not forget aboutIndigo...But if a project is a fork of another project (in this case Luxrender being a fork of PBRT), how far could the luxrender team really get towards commercialization since the parent code is (and most likely will ALWAYS) be gpl. And Luxrender 0.6 is already much better (imo) than Indigo 1.09 (the last one I have)...
Congrats on a great OSS app.

@noodlesgcx: That's not really an issue in this case. The code base is a fork of PBRT. Neither the original authors of PBRT or LuxRender have expressed any interest in trying to develop a closed source rendering engine. It would totally kill the development since the whole reason many of the developers contribute is that it is GPLed code.

Furthermore I think the devs would probably be a little offended since they take great pride in LuxRender being opensource.